Miracle Snow was born to Snow Peak and sired by Dean Miracle. Snow Peak died when Miracle Snow was only 2 weeks old.

That’s when the Neugabauers stepped in.

“We bottle fed him,” Melvin Neugebauer said. “Most orphaned babies don’t turn around very good. When he was old enough, we sent him to New Mexico to work with his trainer, Wesley T. Giles.”

And that’s where Miracle Snow started to excel.

Most horses only race until they are 4 years old, but Miracle Snow just keeps on performing, throwing a wrench in that theory.

“It’s pretty unusual for a horse to have this long of a career, so Miracle Snow is truly an exception,” Neugebauer said.

And longevity isn’t the only success.

On Oct. 28, at Zia Park in New Mexico, jockey G.R. Carter and Miracle Snow won the $170,360 purse at the Namehimastreaker New Mexico Classic Quarter Horse Championship - RGI.

This pushed Miracle Snow’s career winnings over the $500,000 mark, and also pushed the career earnings of his jockey, G.R. Carter Jr., who Neugebauer says is one of the best, to over $60 million.

Caring for a horse of this caliber is not an easy feat, the monthly cost to feed him is $2,000, not including the training that Carter does on a daily basis.

Whatever his trainer is doing is working, because Miracle Snow is not done yet. He will run in another big race on Dec. 8 at Sunland Park Race Track in El Paso. The guaranteed purse for this race is at least $100,000.

Once Miracle Snow is done racing, he will more than likely be a pacer for racing horses.

“He’s been quite a horse considering the odds he was up against. You get kinda attached to them. They are like your kids,” Neugebauer said. Miracle Snow is one lucky kid.